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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> posted |
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20080417195145.GJ31409@××××××.local, excerpted below, on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 |
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21:51:45 +0200: |
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> I don't know very much about KDE stuff, since I got rid of it for a long |
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> time, but IMHO it seems there's an principle problem on the install |
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> layout - 3.x and 4.x should be completely separate, never conflicting |
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> each other. So some package kfoo either depends on kdelibfoo-3.x OR |
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> kdelibfoo-4.x. |
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> Of course I don't know whether the problems comes from ebuilds or |
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> upstream ;-o |
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The problem is simply older versions of kde-3 ebuilds. Newer versions |
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have the plumbing necessary to keep v3 and v4 separate, but older |
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versions didn't. So those blocks are on the older versions that didn't. |
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By the time kde4 stabilizes (quite some time as a qualified upstream |
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version isn't released yet, current kde4 will never stabilize), the newer |
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kde3 ebuilds should have been stable for some time, so the blocks are |
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there just in case someone has a real outdated kde3 system and tries to |
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install kde4 as well. If they are going to keep their kde3, they'll need |
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to update it first, to the ebuilds that handle things correctly. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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